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Monday, June 3, 2013

The Star ~ C. Warner-Thompson Release Blitz

Genre: Young
Adult, Urban Fantasy

Abbii
had been afraid of the dark for four long years. She hated the eerie silence
that filled the night.

She
would often try to forget by closing her eyes at night, but she would always be
met by dreams of Shadows that would attack her, dragging her into the Darkness.
Most nights, she would simply lie there with her bedding wrapped tightly around
her, staring at the light coming in through her window, hoping that she would
drift off into a dreamless sleep.

Ever
since that day four years ago, the dark had frightened her; she had thought it
would be a curse throughout the whole of her life, but something changed when
she met him.

The
dark seemed to lose its power and the moon’s light brightened.

Her
dreams didn’t stop; nightmares still stole her sleep, but there was always a
figure of Light that would save her and allow her to wake.

He said
the same thing every night in her dreams. Keep fighting, Abbii.

She
thought that he was part of her imagination, someone that she had created to
save her, until she met him and was drawn into his bright hazel eyes.

His
name was Nate.Excerpt:

“I
have faith in you, Abbii…”

Inhaling
a breath, she allowed her fear to subside as she concentrated. She laid her
empty hand by the side of Nate’s wound, feeling the warmth of skin spark
against her own, and then poured the bottle with no further delay.

Nate’s
body tensed and he clenched his hands into fists. No sound left his lips, but
it was obvious that the pain was overwhelming. Abbii watched the alcohol mix
with his blood, allowing it to grow thin until little blood actually remained.
Taking hold of the towel from Nate’s grasp, she wiped his wound to clean the
surrounding skin, and then repeated the wash with liquor. She placed the bottle
on the floor and then wiped the wound clean for a second time, moving closer to
examine it.

Pleased
that it had been cleaned, Abbii took hold of the needle and thread, biting off
as much as she needed. Threading the needle, she extended her hand, hovering it
over Nate’s side. He had grown quiet, but Abbii could see that he was still
awake; she could sense that he would lose consciousness soon if his wound was
not sealed correctly.

She
lowered her hand but stopped as something caught her attention. Ignoring the
fact that her hand was shaking, Abbii could see a glisten of light at the tip
of each of her fingers. Placing the needle and thread next to Nate, Abbii
focused onto her hand, realising that she could sense her powers.

I
wonder…

She
glanced at the window to see that little light was visible due to the layer of
snow which fell from the sky. The lamp at her side was also giving little
light, as only its aura was lit and not the actual light itself. Abbii wondered
how her powers had appeared without a specific source of energy fuelling them,
but it took her only a moment to let the thought pass. Placing her one hand flat
against Nate’s skin, so that his wound was between her thumb and index finger,
she then moved her opposite directly above Nate’s injury.

“What
are you doing?” Nate stirred, trying to see Abbii’s movements.

She
ignored him and kept her hand against his skin. “Let me try,” she whispered.

Nate
lay back down, proving that he had heard Abbii’s reply. The warmth from his
body seemed to increase all of a sudden, but Abbii presumed it was due to the
fact that her own skin had increased in temperature, and not Nate’s. As she
moved towards his side, the light at her fingertips brightened until her whole
hand shone like a star. She watched as the light seemed to fill Nate’s wound,
soothing it with small shockwaves of energy.

Her
fingertips lay against his skin which brightened her magic further. An image of
Nate’s face appeared in her mind as she watched his wound start to heal ever so
slightly, but she took no notice of it, and instead focused her concentration.
Nate’s skin started to move, regenerating its wounded layers at a steady pace.
Abbii started to feel light-headed, but she ignored the feeling and kept her
magic bright. The deepest parts of Nate’s injury had been healed, but the top
layers of his skin were still torn.

“You
can stop now.” Nate tried to sit up, but Abbii would not allow him.

“I
can do this,” she whispered.

Giving
her no choice this time, Nate pushed himself to sit upright, grabbing hold of
Abbii’s glowing hand tightly. As soon as his skin came into contact with her
hand, she lost her balance and leaned against his shoulder. She found it hard
to catch her breath and fatigue seemed to consume her; it had been a whole day
since Abbii had slept.

“Rest,
Abbii,” Nate soothed, stroking her hair away from her face.

Author Bio:

I was
born in England in the West Midlands in 1991 where I am still currently living,
growing up alongside one younger and three older brothers.

Books
and writing was an interest that I began to develop from the first years of
secondary school, and on my thirteenth birthday, I began to plan and design the
idea to write a fantasy novel. I finished secondary school with high GCSE’s and
then went on into further education to study English and all aspects of art and
design. After six years of writing, planning and overall editing of the book,
it was successfully completed, containing over 82,000 words, and self published
in the first week of 2011.

With
high expectations in myself, I immediately began to write a second novel in the
series, while keeping my art and design a part of the process. The achievement
of completing the first novel ‘Purest Light,’ allowed the ideas of the second
to flow much easier and it was completed by early 2012. As I was writing the
third and final book, New Beginnings, at the same time, the series was finished
by its publication in 2013.

Writing
is now a part of my everyday and I have started on my newest project, The Star,
which is also planned to be the first of three. Only time will tell.